Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more

Download & Play

Questions

Newspaper Page Text

A JOURNAL- OF CONSTRUCTIVE FARMING
VOL. XXXV. NO. ii.
PORT OF SEATTLE'S COLD STORAGE WAREHOUSE FOR FRUIT
BY GEN. H. M. CHITTENDEN
Nothing is of more importance to the fruitgrowing interests of the Pacific Northwest than ample warehouse and
cold storage facilities. These facilities naturally should be provided at the logical shipping points. • With this end
id view the publisher of The Ranch has been in full co-operation with the Port District of Seattle, where more than
six million dollars are being expended on harbor improvements. The article on this page sets forth in detail what
the Port Commission is doing to provide facilities for the receiving, storage and transshipment of orchard products
of the Pacific Northwest.
In a location of easy access for
both rail and ship the Port of Seattle
Commission will build, north of Spo
kane street and west of Wbatcom ave
nue, what will undoubtedly be the
finest and best equipped cold storage
warehouse not only on the Pacific
Coast but in the entire country.
This warehouse, while intended
primarily for the storage of apples,
which are to be shipped by water to
the Atlantic coast and to Europe,
will also be arranged for storing and
preserving other and varied com
modities. It will contain seven
stories of insulated and refrigerated
space and on the top of the building
making a part of an eighth story,
will be located the freezing tank for
the manufacture of ice which will be
THE WASHINGTON FARMER
WITH WHICH IS CONSOLIDATED
JUNE i, 1914.
50c Per Year; 5c the Copy
used for packing goods to be shipped
in refrigerator cars or boats. The
building will b3 147 feet in width by
105 feet in length as shown on the
general ground plan. The first floor
will be divided into small rooms to be
used for storing a miscellaneous line
of goods. The upper floors will each
be subdivided into six rooms as near
ly as practicable of a uniform size.
The apples will be received on tue
tracks on the north side and taken
from the cars on motor trucks oper
ated by electric batteries and con
veyed to the storage rooms in any
one of the six floors, the elevators
being of ample capacity to carry the
loaded truok. In transporting the
apples to the boats for trans-shipment,
they will be carried on the trucks to